cobblestone

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"There is not a regular cobblestone, there is not a straight step, there is not an easy way to cross any street in all of the Eternal City," he said.

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  1. noun A naturally rounded paving stone.

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  • It felt like a cobblestone hitting me hard in the calf. —  MAIGRET and the Yellow Dog - Georges Simenon - 06
  • Without perceptible trajectory, it diminished to a cobblestone, a pebble, a grain of sand, and disappeared. —  F ;SF - vol 092 issue 01 - January 1997
  • Somewhere nearby a slate roof tile crashed on cobblestone, but again the echoes played tricks with the sound. —  Witch Star.htm
  • He knew every cracked cobblestone, every ramshackle hovel, every smudgepot of an alley. —  Teresa Medeiros - Thief of Hearts
  • The street was some kind of redbrick or cobblestone, not the comp you found everywhere else. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 01 - July 1996
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  1. Middle English cobelston : obsolete cobel, probably diminutive of cob, round object; see cob + Middle English ston, stone, stone; see stone.

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  1. Also copplestone (and cogglestone, q. v.); from Middle English cobilstone, also (once) cobled stone; from cobble + stone.
  2. from cobblestone, n.
 

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/ˈkɑblstoʊn/
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